Description
Genus: Leccinum
Species: ponderosum
Common Name:
Tells: Orange- to brick-red cap ages to the cupcake shape, w/pores coming up the sides. A great big mushroom that grows on or around decaying pines.
Other Information: Whitish stem w/brown to purple-black scabers bruises blue, esp. by base. Whitish pores age to pale olive-brown & slowly bruise yellowish to orange-brown. White cap flesh DNS.
Science Notes: See this Article on the Red-Cap Leccinum Taxonomy Mess.
Edibility: Choice.
CHEMICAL TESTS:
- NH4OH (Ammonia): No data.
- KOH: No data.
- FeSO4 (Iron Salts): No data.
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I found some Leccinum ponderosum growing under Pinus contorta on the Oregon Coast. Same habitat and timeframe for Matsutakes or Boletus edulis. Yum! Had a hint of sourness or “tangy-ness,” almost faint citrus or “piney” taste to them.